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Read the passage from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.If you want to know which years are a good time to visit and which years to avoid, the following is a guide to the extremes. The years of greatest plenty—i.e., those in which the price of grain is 20 percent or more below the average—are 1564, 1566, 1569–71, 1583–84, 1587–88, 1592–93, and 1602, the very best being 1592 and 1593, when grain prices are just 56 percent and 65 percent of the average.

A
analyze the information logically.
B
enjoy the humor in the information.
C
feel excited about the information.
D
engage with the information emotionally.
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To analyze an author’s style, which elements should the reader identify? Check all that apply.

A
audience
B
plot
C
point of view
D
tone
E
word choice
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Which question should writers ask in order to consider their audience?

A
When is my writing due?
B
Who will read my writing?
C
How long should my writing be?
D
How will I reach my writing goal?
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At what point should a writer introduce evidence in a paragraph?

A
in the topic sentence
B
before making a point
C
after making a point
D
in the concluding statement
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Read the passage from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.1.) It is easy to write the line "people starve to death"; it is much harder to deal with the harsh reality. 2.) But you need to understand this point, if only to see how little choice you might have in what you eat. 3.) The itinerant poor might literally die in the street.

A
It highlights the number of impoverished people in Elizabethan England.
B
It explains how the reader can avoid dealing with the hungry poor.
C
It illustrates how the diet of Elizabethan England can benefit the reader.
D
It emphasizes why this passage is important to the reader personally.
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Read the sentence.Lots of writers have written good stuff other than books, like stuff for movies.

A
Modern novelists often expand to other genres, such as screenwriting.
B
Modern writers often write books and other things, such as screenplays.
C
Many writers choose to write other things instead of books, such as movies.
D
Many novelists do good writing for books as well as for stuff like movies.
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A
developing
B
evaluating
C
memorizing
D
paraphrasing
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Read the passage from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.Perhaps the most difficult thing to come to terms with is the scale of death. Influenza, for example, is an affliction which you no doubt have come across. However, you have never encountered anything like Elizabethan flu. It arrives in December 1557 and lasts for eighteen months. In the ten-month period August 1558 to May 1559 the annual death rate almost trebles to 7.2 percent (normally it is 2.5 percent). More than 150,000 people die from it—5 percent of the population. This is proportionally much worse than the great influenza pandemic of 1918–19 (0.53 percent mortality).

A
is exciting to read.
B
rephrases the topic.
C
expresses an opinion.
D
is relevant to the topic.
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The purpose of adding relevant evidence to a paragraph is to

A
add a point.
B
support a point.
C
introduce a topic.
D
conclude a topic.
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Read the passage from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.There are no roads across this wasteland, only track ways. Elizabethans see it as good for nothing but pasture, tin mining, and the steady water supply it provides by way of the rivers that rise there. Many people are afraid of such moors and forests. They are "the ruthless, vast and gloomy woods . . . by nature made for murders and for rapes,” as Shakespeare writes in Titus Andronicus. Certainly no one will think of Dartmoor as beautiful. Sixteenth-century artists paint wealthy people, prosperous cities, and food, not landscapes.

A
It creates a condescending tone that conveys the author’s dislike of the countryside.
B
It supports the author’s purpose of challenging the image of the romantic countryside.
C
It emphasizes the author’s position that travelers should go visit the countryside.
D
It uses second-person point of view to compare the author’s and reader’s views of the countryside.

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